Back to 80: My Literary Life

If the person sitting across from him was an ordinary friend, or even Jia Pingwa, Fang Minghua might say haha ​​or something like that, saying Brother Jia, you are overthinking, but I don't have that idea.

But Lu Yao and Fang Minghua didn't hide it, "I have this idea, but it's difficult."

He recounted the contents of his phone call with Qin Zhaoyang, editor of "Contemporary" a few days ago.

Lu Yao also frowned after hearing this.

He also didn't expect that the competition would be so fierce. According to the ratio of 6 books winning the first Mao Dun Award, that’s just one book out of 15!

"The literary level of the work is on the one hand, and on the other hand it also depends on the influence of the work. The more people who know it and the more people who like it, the better."

Fang Minghua continued: "One way to do this is to broadcast it continuously on media such as China Central Radio. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone from China Central Radio."

After listening to this, Lu Yao pondered for a moment and said, "I know an editor from CCTV. Her name is Ye Yongmei. I wonder if I can help with this."

"Ye Yongmei?! Do you know Ye Yongmei?!" Fang Minghua was surprised.

He vaguely remembered that Lu Yao seemed to be relying on this person to quickly become popular when he broadcast "Ordinary World" on China Central Radio. But that was in the late 1980s, and he didn't expect that they all know each other now.

Seeing Fang Minghua's strange expression, Lu Yao was stunned: "You know him too?"

"No, no, I don't know him." Fang Minghua said quickly.

"I have known Ye Yongmei very early, probably in 1975, when she joined the team in Qinbei and we knew each other. Later, he interned at "Yanhe" - it was also called "Qin Province Literature and Art" at that time, and I happened to be transferred back. The relationship is not bad." Lu Yao explained.

I see!

"But we haven't had any contact with her since she was transferred to Yanjing in 1979, and I don't know what she is doing. I can send her your book to see if it works, but I'm not sure." Lu Yao added.

"I want to thank you whether it's okay or not!" Fang Minghua was overjoyed when he heard this: "You just happened to be back. I called Teacher Chen and Brother Jia. I'll treat you to Xijing Restaurant tonight! Let's celebrate the New Year!"

"Haha, Minghua, you are famous for entertaining guests! I haven't had a drink with you for a long time, so let's get together and have two more drinks today!"

Still drinking.

Fang Minghua spent the first day of the New Year's holiday in 1985 lying on his bed because he drank too much with Lu Yao and Jia Pingwa the night before.

Fang Ming, a young Chinese man with a good drinking capacity, was unable to withstand the "group fight" of this group of people. There is no way, who makes you the richest and most popular among this group of writers.

Looking at her son lying on the bed, Zhang Fenglan felt very distressed. She sighed and kept scolding: "Xiaohua, look at you! We originally agreed to go out to play with Tangtang, but the girls are here, but you I can’t get up from my bed!”

Song Tangtang stood aside and watched silently.

After his mother left, Song Tangtang asked in a reproachful tone: "Minghua, why do you drink so much?"

"There's no way so many people are taking turns to clink glasses with me." Fang Minghua replied feebly, and suddenly became excited again: "Actually, there is another happy thing."

"What's up?"

"Brother Lu promised to contact a friend of his at CCTV to see if he could broadcast my book." Fang Minghua told the girl how he met Fang Luyao yesterday afternoon.

"Brother Lu, is this friend so useful?" Song Tangtang was a little skeptical after hearing this.

"It works! The quality of this book is not bad, and Brother Lu wrote a letter to recommend it. I think it can be broadcast." Fang Minghua is very confident about this.

Song Tangtang nodded after hearing this, and suddenly pouted again: "Minghua, it's your fault for making Auntie so worried."

"I know, drink less next time."

"No, next time you take me with you, see how I drink them down!"

I @#￥%……

In fact, both Fang Minghua and Lu Yao thought wrong. Ye Yongmei had already noticed this book.

At this time, Ye Yongmei was reading this novel at her own home in Yanjing.

As a literature lover, reading is her favorite thing, but at the same time she is the editor of the CCTV novel serial program. It is her job responsibility to discover good books and then record them into audio files and broadcast them to the people across the country.

From the end of 1979, she was transferred to CCTV and began to serve as the editor of the novel serial program, which she worked for 5 years.

During this period, as an editor, she recorded "Harbin at Night" and "The General's Song", both of which were well received by the audience.

Recently, the radio station is broadcasting "New Star" written by Ke Yunlu. As an editor, she is looking for the next novel.

Some time ago, a colleague recommended the popular "Enter Guandong" sold at Xinhua Bookstore. She bought a copy while she was on vacation and read it at home.

The writing is indeed good. The ups and downs of Zhu Kaishan's family's thirty years in Guandong are set against the background of the suffering years when a large country suffered from Japanese invasion... The feelings of family and country, and national justice are vividly expressed.

The author is Fang Minghua, a young writer who has been very popular in the past two years.

Deputy editor-in-chief of "Yanhe" magazine publishing house!

This reminded her of the days and nights she had spent as an intern at "Yanhe" which was then called "Qin Province Literature and Art".

She spent almost all her youth in Qin Province, which made her feel familiar with this name, even though she had never met Fang Minghua.

And what about Lu Yao and Chen Zhongshi?

Lu Yao wrote a book "Life" and it seems that he has been silent for the past two years. I rarely hear from him. Is there a cat writing a book somewhere?

After closing the book, taking off her glasses, and rubbing her sleepy eyes, Ye Yongmei decided to record this book.

"Mom, I'm back." The door of the house was opened, and a boy walked in from the outside, holding a magazine in his hand. He was his son who was in the third grade of junior high school.

When she saw a magazine in her son's hand, she couldn't help but said angrily: "Xiaojun, the high school entrance examination is about to take place in half a year. If you don't review carefully, you still read extracurricular readings!"

Unexpectedly, my son was very confident:

"Mom, don't worry. With my current academic performance, I can't say I can get into the High School Affiliated to Renmin University, but I should be fine at the High School Affiliated to Tsinghua University!"

Her son studies very well, which is something she is very proud of as a mother.

Seeing her son like this, Ye Yongmei naturally had to say something else: "Don't be proud! Besides, why don't you work hard and get admitted to the high school affiliated with Renmin University?!"

"Mom, I know I'm not trying hard." Her son smiled and suddenly saw the book "Enter Guandong" she had put aside.

"Mom, are you reading this book?"

"Yeah, what's wrong? Have you seen it too?"

"I've read it, and I don't think this book is good. It's very average."

"Huh? What do you know?"

"Really, our classmate said that the best book in Minghua is not this one, but this one!" Xiaojun said as he put the magazine in front of his mother.

"'My Journey is Called the Stars and the Sea' written by him is being serialized in "Science and Literature", so that's what he wrote!"